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Set to arrive on your iPhone and iPad later this year, Apple iOS 11 brings a number of new features to the platform. Here are the ones we think you’ll love the most.
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Ahead of the Android 8.0 arrival later this year, Sony has reportedly announced the list of smartphones that will get the update. These include most of the smartphones it released this year and last, leaving out a few, like the Sony Xperia XA for example. All of the mentioned smartphones will get Android O, but
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With the world expected to create 163ZB of data annually by 2025, global demand for storage continues to increase as data needs are growing exponentially. Organisations, especially mid-sized companies looking to drive business growth, need to refine their approach to IT in response.
High Capacity Meets Performance for Cost-Effective Mission Critical Storage Read More »
OPPO announced today that they are introducing two new camera phones to New Zealanders: the A77 and the A57, a new flagship-level device with the best selfie front camera. In a New Zealand first, the two phones are available from today at 2degrees, JB Hi-Fi and Noel Leeming with dual SIM and a triple-slot tray.
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Apple’s iPhone may be ready for its next big act – as a springboard into “augmented reality,” a technology that projects life-like images into real-world settings viewed through a screen.
iPhone 8’s Anticipated AR Features Teased by Apple CEO Read More »
Intel’s more than two decade reign as king of the silicon-based semiconductor ended Thursday when Samsung Electronics surpassed the US manufacturer to become the leading maker of the computer chips that are a 21st century staple much as oil was in the past. Samsung reported record-high profit and sales in its earnings report for the
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Better speed, style, and quality form the bedrock of every Ballistix module. No matter what kind of gamer you are, you can now become the gamer you want to be with three levels of gaming memory from Ballistix.
Ballistix NZ targets three levels of gaming memory Read More »
Latest PowerLine AV2 MIMO 2000 technology uses existing electrical wiring to provide fast networking speeds ideal for 4K media and streaming
D-Link NZ Launches New AV2 2000 Passthrough PowerLine Kit with MIMO Technology Read More »
While the LG Q8 was found (via Android Police) listed on LG’s Italian website, the pricing of the smartphone is still unknown. Unfortunately, the company has not even revealed when the device will hit other markets. Coming to the specifications, the LG Q8 arrives with a relatively small 5.2-inch QHD IPS LCD display with the
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Trump is listed as the Defendant in the court case. Image: Win McNamee / Getty Images Dr James Hansen – a former NASA scientist, a climatologist at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and someone who is considered to be the “grandfather” of climate change awareness – has just released a new study entitled “Young People’s Burden”.
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Consumers can now control their mydlink Wi-Fi Smart Plugs from anywhere, hands-free D-Link ANZ has announced that its mydlink Wi-Fi Smart Plug (DSP-W215) is compatible with the Google Assistant on Google Home, eligible Android phones and iPhones. Consumers can control their mydlink Wi-Fi Smart Plugs from anywhere by saying “OK Google” and asking the Google
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Weeks after it was rumoured that Samsung will launch its next flagship Galaxy Note 8 device in September to counter its biggest rival Apple, the South Korean giant has “accidentally” revealed the device on Twitter. In a tweet, Samsung promoted its new processor Exynos 8895 (commonly known as Exynos 9) that is used in the
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The pill-sized cameras in today’s mobile phones may seem miraculously tiny, given that a decade ago the smallest cameras available for retail sale were the size of a pack of cards. Ali Hajimiri of the California Institute of Technology will make far smaller cameras. His team plan to replace them with truly minuscule devices that
Supertiny cameras could shrink from pill size to dust size Read More »
Scientists have designed and constructed a prototype for a new solar cell that integrates multiple cells stacked into a single device capable of capturing nearly all of the energy in the solar spectrum. A George Washington University researcher helped design and construct a prototype for a new solar cell that integrates multiple cells stacked into
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Apple engineers are reportedly working tirelessly to implement a 3D laser sensor to the back of the iPhone 8 that will help improve autofocus and be used for Augmented Reality. It’s reportedly a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser and will bring a huge improvement to depth detection. The new laser sensor will be vital for Apple’s newly
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Legendary Pokémon could be coming very soon to Pokémon GO, as hinted by a series of clues involving the still massively popular mobile game. There has been clamor for the addition of legendary Pokémon ever since the game was launched last year. The hype then reached fever pitch when Niantic Labs product marketing lead Archit
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Sony could release the PlayStation 5 in 2019, according to an analyst, who adds that it’ll feature backward compatibility. The prediction comes just a couple of weeks after Shawn Layden, PlayStation America’s boss, confirmed that the company will develop a PS4 Pro sequel, the PS5 – the next iteration of the PlayStation brand. This essentially
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You probably keep your most important files and photos in different places – your computer, your phone, various SD cards, and that digital camera you use from time to time. It can be a challenge to keep all these things safe, backed up, and organized, so today we’re introducing Backup and Sync. It’s a simpler,
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Monitor an entire room in Full HD with a single camera D-Link ANZ has launched its newest mydlink-enabled Wi-Fi Camera, the Full HD 180-Degree Wi-Fi Camera (DCS-2530L). Most competitor cameras provide, on average, a 130-degree lens, whereas the new DCS-2530L offers a 180-degree field of view, so users can monitor an entire room in Full
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have enabled a computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time – including, for the first time, the pose of each individual’s fingers. This new method was developed with the help of the Panoptic Studio, a two-story dome embedded with
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The always-listening feature of smart speakers may be considered by some as an invasion of privacy, but in an incident involving such a device in New Mexico, it helped break up a domestic violence case before it took a turn for the worse. The smart home device, initially reported as the Google Home but later
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